Dave&Callie: 02_27_2011 Lynn A comes to Town!

Lynn came to town for some work. Happily she had some time to stick around after that work ended on Friday afternoon. We drove back to the house looking forward to some R&R. Work was on the agenda as well, but it kept getting pushed back. NO REGRETS!

She arrived at the house and it took Pente about 4 seconds to introduce herself. Nothing new there. Pretty soon the wine was opened and the cat dresses came out. Pente wore some. Lynn wore one. Dave wore Pente. Good times!

Lynn also met the birds...well maybe not Grace. She hid as she usually does. Henri was quick to come out and inform Lynn that I was HIS mate. Ferne sat quietly in the background giving Lynn some loving looks. He even made a few vocalizations he saves only for the most beautiful females. Clover talked, but Henri put a stop to anyone looking at anyone but him.

The next morning we decided to run around Boulder for the quick tour. The weather was a little windy and a little cool. Sadly, there were a lot of clouds so she couldn't see any of the Rockies. We first headed up to a look-out hoping the Rockies were showing. They weren't. Then up to UCAR (aka NCAR; http://ncar.ucar.edu/) for the view.

I really think NCAR is cool and I'm psyched it's in our backyard. Next we headed to Chautauqua Park for the obligatory Flat Irons photo. (see http://www.chautauqua.com/). We hiked up a bit and enjoyed the pleasant weather.

Next up, we drove up to Flagstaff Mountain. I'd hoped some of the clouds had cleared off so we'd get a nice view of the Continental Divide. No luck. We parked and hiked a wee bit more than a mile. Not long, but it was snowy and icy so it kept our attention. Though the weather was sort of socked in, it was pretty and Lynn noticed how lovely it smelled in all the pines. We could see some of the fire scar from the Four Mile Fire from Artist's point. Sad stuff.

After our way-heinous hike, we were hungry so off to town for my favorite place - Sherpas. Yummy! This restaurant is manned by actual Sherpas from the Himalayas. Love the atmosphere, love the food. Following lunch, we walked on Pearl Street Mall. Happily performers were out though we were disappointed that Zip Code Man was not there. So far I've been unable to show any guest this guy (see this url for info and a video: http://thewebgangsta.com/index.php/2010/05/meet-david-rosdeitcher-the-zip-code-man/)

We wandered around looking at sparklies and people. One set of performers were SO Boulder. Two guys, lots of piercings, etc...playing awesome Blue Grass music.

Boulder is known as the Bubble for a reason! We also watched a performer who juggled and performed on the "Suidicycle". I wasn't sure I wanted to watch - falling off that things would NOT have been pretty.

We headed home and chilled watching some bird videos (they were interesting!). Then Dave got home and Pad Thai was started. We waited for dinner sipping on Dave's famous Margaritas and then had a fun dinner.

Finally we all went to bed. We were tired, but it'd been a fun day.

We got up this morning and headed to the Walnut Cafe. We didn't have a lot of time until we needed to get Lynn to the airport. Happily, after a night of pretty good winds, the clouds were gone and the Rockies were clear. Sadly, my ability to take a photo of this is minimal. I tried! Mostly I just got washed out snow-covered mountains and washed out sky.